Prisoner Exchange: Bergdalh for 5 Taliban Commanders

[A Theist]

How do we know he was a deserter? Just because he wasn't where he was supposed to be and his weapons were left behind, that doesn't prove anything to me.

Friends describe him as a trustworthy and outgoing world traveler who joined the Army in 2008. How he ended up captive remains a bit of a mystery. U.S. officials have declined to go into detail, but soldiers in his platoon say he was pulling guard duty when he put down his weapons and walked off base. He reportedly had sent e-mails to his parents denouncing U.S. activities in Afghanistan, according to 2012 reporting by late Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/02/us/bowe-be...?hpt=hp_t1

CNN and Rollingstone are hardly right wing sources. While US officials are remaining silent, the people this man worked with are not.

I don't know what to make of the guy yet. I'm still undecided. But to exchange five high level Taliban terrorists....there was no other way? It's obvious from some emails that he sent his parents that he had denounced America, the country he swore to serve.